Technical Project Manager

 Responsibilities:
• Successful and timely delivery of all phases of the program/projects from concept through to BAU
transition.
• To create, review and maintain project plans with all relevant parties involved.
• To proactively monitor overall project progress, resolving risks and issues and initiating corrective action
plans as appropriate.
• To act as the central point of liaison, communications and coordination between technical teams and other
stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• To maintain overall control and accountability for the schedule and the delivery of expected deliverables.
• To actively manage scope changes and the impact to the overall plan.
• To demonstrate knowledge of the underlying technology stack and supported/related business area.
• To manage budgets, estimates with vendors and creating PO’s where required.
• To build/maintain effective relationships with partners across Technology, Operations, Product & Finance.
• Proactively identify/manage issues, risks, dependencies and assumptions to ensure accurate planning.
• To manage multiple work streams with many moving dependencies.
• To mitigate project related challenges with minimal supervision
• Identify and escalate issues in a timely manner.
• Strong Stakeholder management and the ability to challenge all seniority levels as required.
• Constant vendor/partner engagement to create/deliver project plans.
• Work with department managers to allocate adequate resources
• Work closely with teams across the business – IT, Operations, BI, Network, Product, Mediation, Online,Pricing & Proposition, Business Development & Marketing, Customer Services.
• Weekly communications update to project sponsors and stakeholders
• Manage internal and external project meetings.
• Vendor & stakeholder management.
• Support and implement technical transition to operations

Skills and Experience:
• Knowledge and experience with mobile network deployments, including 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G (non-standalone
and Standalone), IMS networks and Data Centre connectivity.

• Knowledge of core network systems, including GMSC, SBC, STP, SMSC, DRA, HLR/HSS, and on the IP layer,
IP switches, fibre connections and interconnects.
• Ten years’ experience working in telecoms.
• Should have minimum five years’ experience managing global infrastructure projects such as Data centre,
IT infrastructure projects consisting of all business-critical systems in the project manager role.
• Strong Project Management (PMP or Prince2).
• Experience in Agile project management methodologies.
• Exposure to telecom networks and infrastructure (MVNO a bonus).
• Experience working for a Telco Service Provider or Mobile Network Operator(MNO & MVNO) environment
will be an asset.
• Experience in management of application development projects, stakeholder engagements from
requirements analysis through development, testing and delivery.
• Strong understanding of System and SW development life cycle (SDLC) management process.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and networks.
• Experience of building successful delivery teams (under matrix management)
• Excellent English Communication skills (both written and verbal) is critical